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Background: Soil test based application of plant nutrients helps to realize higher response ratio and benefit: cost ratio as the nutrients are applied in proportion to the magnitude of the deficiency of a particular nutrient and the correction of the nutrients imbalance in soil helps to harness the synergistic effects of balanced fertilizationMethods: Soil test crop response correlation studies were conducted to formulate the fertilizer adjustment equations for soybean (Var. GS-3) under integrated plant nutrition system on medium black calcareous soils during year 2016 and 2017 in kharif season following Ramamoorthy’s inductive-cum-targeted yield approach.Result: The nutrients requirement for producing one quintal of soybean was 5.65, 0.91 and 2.53 kg of N, P2O5 and K2O, respectively in presence of FYM (indicate dose). The per cent contributions from soil and fertilizer nutrients were found to be 35.03 and 74.5 for nitrogen, 55.13 and 27.6 for phosphorus and 10.36 and 51.6 per cent for potassium with FYM, Similarly, the per cent contribution of fertilizers was 65.25 for nitrogen, 22.49 for phosphorus and 43.89 for potassium without FYM. The per cent nutrient contribution of FYM was 28.27 for nitrogen, 4.97 for phosphorus and 10.48 for potassium.

Gujarat) during late Kharif 2017-18 in Randomized Block Design with three replications to assess genetic variability in Indian bean comprised of 36 genotypes and 4 check varieties. The analysis of variance revealed that the mean sum of squares due to genotypes were highly significant for all the twelve characters. High phenotypic and genotypic coefficients of variations and high heritability coupled with high genetic advance as per cent of mean were observed for the number of primary branches per plant, the number of pods per plant, pod length, 10-green pod weight, green pod yield per plant and length of twig.

A pot experiment was conducted at College of Agriculture, Junagadh to assess the effect of saline irrigation water on growth and yield of chickpea varieties during winter season of 2016-17.There were four levels of salinity viz., <2.0, 4.0, 6.0 and 8.0 dS m-1 and five varieties namely GG-1, GJG 3, GG 5, GJG 6 and Dahod Yellow. The highest plant height (33.56 cm), no. of branches plant-1 (7.18), no. of pod plant-1 (31.31) and no. of seed pods-1 (1.47), root shoot ratio (0.57) and seed yield (12.28 g plant-1) and stalk yield (20.55 g plant-1) were observed with variety GJG 6. Application of saline irrigation water having EC <2.0 dS m-1 was superior than other treatments for seed yield (15.29 g plant-1), stalk yield (20.50 g plant-1), plant height (39.04 cm), no. of branches plant-1 (7.92), no.of pod plant-1 (38.74) and no. of seed pod-1 (1.52). Interaction effect of varieties and salinity levels had larger influence on plant height, no. of pod plant-1,seed yield and stalk yield in variety GJG 6 irrigated with irrigation water having EC <2 dS m-1 barring plant height.